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Hot MoMs: Page 3 of 6

The new MoMs still handle event management--in many cases, better than ever. But they need to do more. The ultimate MoM has a clue to errors' origins and can take a corrective action automatically.

Management = Money

Unfortunately, MoMs cost a small fortune to implement. The simplest MoM is going to run about $200,000 to get off the ground, with an additional $40,000 a year for maintenance and several thousand dollars for training. This is on top of the purchase, implementation and maintenance costs for the management domain you're using.

More complicated scenarios will cost even more: $500,000 would be realistic for a large organization with, say, 100,000 managed entities in 500 offices across the country.

It's obvious that the more complex the organization, the less the proportional cost in comparison with the overall IT budget, assuming a higher IT budget as complexity rises. For this reason, large, complex organizations will reap MoMs' benefits more easily than small ones. For more on the costs, see the pricing chart.